{"id":109,"date":"2005-07-31T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-07-29T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T20:15:14","slug":"harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><lj-cut text=\"Spoilers inside... you've been warned.\"><\/lj-cut><\/p>\n<p>I finished reading it on Friday, and I liked it, but I was a little disappointed. Formulaic Empire-Strikes-Back plot to tee up book seven: the plot is winding up, and it shows. J.K. is also quite clearly playing to the movies, which is not necessarily a bad thing: I can see several puerile jokes making it verbatim into the film scripts.<\/p>\n<p>I guessed who the Half-Blood Prince was (hmm, old school book, very good at potions, studies dark arts, who on earth might that be?). I also knew immediately what <em>sectumsempra<\/em> would do. I mean honestly, why don&#8217;t they teach Latin at Hogwarts?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a shame that Snape is now such a one-dimensional character: I thought he was previously one of the most interesting characters. I would have liked to see more conflict in him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished reading it on Friday, and I liked it, but I was a little disappointed. Formulaic Empire-Strikes-Back plot to tee up book seven: the plot is winding up, and it shows. J.K. is also quite clearly playing to the movies, which is not necessarily a bad thing: I can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}